Tired of dealing with spam on your WordPress website, even after setting up a honeypot? Say goodbye to unwanted spam messages with the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin. This powerful tool provides comprehensive spam protection for various forms, including WPForms, across your website.
How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin
- In your WordPress admin panel, navigate to ‘Plugins’ and select ‘Add New.’
- In the search bar, type “CleanTalk” and click ‘Install’ for “Spam Protection, Anti-Spam, and FireWall by CleanTalk.”
- After installation, click ‘Activate.’
- Go to the plugin settings, click ‘Get Access Key Automatically,’ and then ‘Save Settings.’

Alternatively, you can follow our installation instructions.
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Check the result to save your WPForms from spam
You can verify the effectiveness of the Anti-Spam protection for your WPForms contact form using a test email (e.g., stop_email@example.com). Here’s how:
- Open the form in an Incognito browser tab.
- Complete all the required form fields.
- Submit the form.
- You have to see a special response from Anti-Spam by CleanTalk that describes a reason for blocking.
*** Forbidden. Sender blacklisted. ***

Don’t wait any longer – create your CleanTalk account and stop WPForms spam!
Note: The protection applies to website visitors, not administrators. Be sure to test form protection using Incognito mode for accurate results.
Additional features
- CleanTalk safeguards all types of forms, including comments, registrations, feedback, contacts, and reviews. Installation is quick, taking just 1-2 minutes.
- Enjoy 100% smart protection against spambots.
- Benefit from 24/7 technical support, ensuring your site stays secure.
- Access logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and more.
Hey, I’m having a problem where CleanTalk is actually blocking the submission of a WPForm on my website. Have you heard of this? Do you have any ideas about how I might fix it?
Hello, Eric.
We are working on fixing this issue. We have replied to you in the private ticket:
https://cleantalk.org/my/support
I recommend continuing our communication in the ticket.
Thank you.
Hi, I have 3 forms on my WP website, through Visual Form Builder, can you tell me if CleanTalk will prevent the dozens of spam completed forms I receive everyday? I don’t understand the ‘How to test..’ section. I am not an IT worker just a website owner
Regards Charlie
Hello, Charlie.
Yes, the CleanTalk plugin will protect your forms from spam.
Please, follow this installation guide: https://cleantalk.org/help/install-wordpress
You don’t have to be a tech-savvy person to use our anti-spam. The plugin should work right out of the box.
Did it help you?
Thank you.